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From legislation that promotes genocide to judicial approaches that maintain systemic oppression and common law that prevents society from moving forward, 's(cr)ue you' uncovers the many ways in which the law screws us over. Join host, Mewilec, every month on s(cr)ue you!
In this episode, Mewilec talks about the death penalty and illustrates why it should never be reinstated.
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95 PERCENT OF DEATH SENTENCEES WERE BLACK: MCBRIDE: https://www.justice.gov.za/trc/media/1997/9707/s970722b.htm
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Andrew Novak. Executions and State Power during the Colonial Period: https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1057/9781137438775_3
Early History of the Death Penalty: https://deathpenaltyinfo.org/facts-and-research/history-of-the-death-penalty/early-history-of-the-death-penalty
Hatchard, J. (1994). Capital Punishment in Southern Africa: Some Recent Developments. The International and Comparative Law Quarterly, 43(4), 923–934. http://www.jstor.org/stable/761009
History of the Death Penalty: https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/article/history-of-the-death-penalty/
History of Death Penalty Laws: https://www.findlaw.com/criminal/criminal-procedure/history-of-death-penalty-laws.html
Jolandi le Roux. Impact of the Death Penalty on Criminality.
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Political executions in South Africa by the apartheid government 1961 – 1989: https://www.sahistory.org.za/article/political-executions-south-africa-apartheid-government-1961-1989
Robert Turrell, White Mercy. A Study of the Death Penalty in South Africa, Westport, Praeger, 2004, 281 pp., ISBN 0 325 07132 2(Summary accessed on: https://journals.openedition.org/chs/312)
Youth on death row: https://www.saha.org.za/youth/political_prisoners.htm
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From legislation that promotes genocide to judicial approaches that maintain systemic oppression and common law that prevents society from moving forward, 's(cr)ue you' uncovers the many ways in which the law screws us over. Join host, Mewilec, every month on s(cr)ue you!
